“Whenever I get the urge to exercise I sit down in a comfortable chair and wait for the urge to pass” – Sir Winston Churchill ******************************************************
We just got done shooting a new video series this week. In between shoots my friend [and world class Olympian strength coach] Charles Staley was hanging out and marveling at the fact that although he has been in the martial arts for over 20 years, much of what he was viewing he had never seen before.
It was funny because it was the end of the day and the guys and I were just trying to outdo each other with different techniques for highlights on the opening of the video.
At one point one of the instructors was asking Charles about how to improve his workout regime to get a better body composition.
The instructor made the comment “That’s what sucks… once you know how to fight, you really don’t care about staying in shape”.
Now I think everyone knows I don’t subscribe to that idea but I understand what he meant — using violence as a survival tool and staying in shape have nothing to do with each other.
There are obvious health and lifestyle benefits to being in good physical shape but that is not a condition for effectively using violence to injure an asocial criminal.
That is the great thing about TFT — we don’t teach you how to “TFT” someone. We teach you how to use violence. Our methods and principles help you to do it with the greatest effect. But violence is achievable by everyone — not just those in good shape.
That’s the realm of combat sports and martial arts where being in shape is important. Rules hinder your ability to use violence effectively and when competing the goal is to better your opponent skill-wise not injure him and leave him non-functional. Physical conditioning can often be the defining factor in such contests especially with two equally skill opponents.
Using violence requires intent. TFT helps you to model asocial conditions to recognize when to act. Effective targeting allows you to maximize the use of violence. This allows you to bypass the need for good physical conditioning to be able to create injuries on any human body regardless of the size, speed, and physical strength of the other guy.
My point is that violence is available right now to everyone regardless of your physical condition. TFT helps you to learn how to use violence most effectively… but you don’t have to know TFT to use violence to protect yourself.
Again, the prisons are full of ‘untrained’ murderers who already understand this point. Don’t use the excuse you need to get in shape as a reason not to understand the tool of violence.
Until next time,
Tim Larkin Creator of Target Focus(TM) Training
PS. To have the notoriously complex subject of Leverage literally handed to you as a set of simple, highly effective principles of action, head on over now to: http://www.tftjointbreaking.com.
